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HHornbein replied to the thread Undergrad Is this proof "by contradiction" or "by contrapositive"?.The text is correct. They assume the theorem is false and show this leads to a contradiction of the condition that b is irrational.
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HHornbein replied to the thread Methane as a greenhouse gas.The Great Morph has been covered up. If they knew the people might panic.
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HUnique line drumming. Such an original. John French. For heavy beat drumming I can't get enough of 임영은 (Yeong eun). Catchy tune.
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HAs far as I know, the anecdote of the windshield is associated with Richard Feynman not Oppenheimer.
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HHornbein replied to the thread Today I Learned.Erwin, the mistress, and his wife shared a house. It was a harem. William Marston, the creator of Wonder Woman, had a similar arrangement.
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HI just watched a program (video) on this subject last night. The Amercian Chestnut was apparently very productive was a significant...
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HHornbein reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread Undergrad Infinity and 0 (null set) do not exist with
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You are conflating mathematics and physics. Pure mathematics is not dependent on the size of atoms. That circle you speak of does not... -
HHornbein replied to the thread Undergrad A Very Gentle Approach to Thinking About Hyperspheres.Consider a sphere and cube with the same center and volume. As the number of dimensions increases the volume of their intersection goes...
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HHornbein replied to the thread Undergrad A Very Gentle Approach to Thinking About Hyperspheres.Suppose any two volumes with one properly contained within the other. As the number of dimensions increases the relative volume of the...
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HI host games here and there (darts, cards) and I keep running up against discrepancies for "what should happen in scenario X". My...
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HLouis Pasteur (of the vaccination fame) separated racemic mixture of tartaric acid by drying it out and patiently sorting crystals under...
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HHornbein replied to the thread Housecat Reproduction.The local Villa Kitty has 808 housecats.
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HWith unlimited resources, one billion housecats, would require something like 100 million houses and carers. That would solve the...
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HOne may often read that mathematical knots (closed curves) can't exist in a 4D Euclidean space. More precisely, they would all "fall...
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HHornbein replied to the thread Housecat Reproduction.9x + 0.9x + 0.09x ... = 10x But I didn't figure that out in advance. The data is vague, there's only one significant figure, so I...